Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is warning residents about two phone scams happening in the state.

McDaniel said his office has received a number of reports of people claiming to be with credit card companies, or the government, trying to obtain credit card or bank information.

One scam involves a person alleged to be with a credit card company and said the would-be victim’s credit cards are locked, and their credit numbers are needed to unlock the cards. McDaniel said credit card companies would already know the customers’ card number.

The second involves someone posing as a government employee and offers grants to people with good credit and asks for checking, savings or debit card numbers, McDaniel said. There is no such grant program.

Pope County Sheriff Aaron DuVall said other phone scams are also occurring in the Arkansas River Valley.

“We’ve been getting some calls that someone with a foreign accent calls and tells them they’ve won the Publisher’s Sweepstakes, a large amount of money and a high-dollar car,” Duvall said. “They want the people to go to Western Union and send some money back to cover the charge to send things.”

DuVall said in situations like this, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. He encouraged people to take caution with these types of calls.

DuVall said another phone scam the Sheriff’s Department has received involves someone claiming to be a family member in need of money.

Again, the person calling wants you to go to Western Union and send money.

DuVall said the best thing to do is to hang up and call the family member to be sure something is really wrong.